The days of a stay at home mom

Since asked often what I do all day, I am creating this blog. Lately I have been assigning myself 20 tasks to be completed each day. It keeps me organized and lets the world in to see what the stay at home mom of school aged kids actually does.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Start of Holiday Season Twenty

1/20 Take girls to school
2/20 Follow Tom in car over to body shop
3/20 Take Tom to work
4/20 Go to bank, get cash for laundry mat
5/20 Go to Hobby Lobby for stuff to make ornaments
6/20 Home, walk dog
7/20 Make snowman ornaments
8/20 Clean LR and DR
9/20 Wrap and hide girls gifts
10/20 Clean kitchen
11/20 Get mail
12/20 Go to laundry mat (yeah, never made it last week so this is a priority)
13/20 Home, put clothes away
14/20 Clean bathroom
15/20 Do school work
16/20 Take kid 1 to orthodontist
17/20 Take kid 2 to swim
18/20 Pick Tom up from work
19/20 Stop at storage and dig out holiday stuff (because we didn't get to this either)
20/20 Pick kid up from swim

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Hosting dinner tomorrow 20

Eeek! Not ready!

1/20 Take husband to work
2/20 Take truck in for oil change/tune up
3/20 Come home, gather any leftover laundry
4/20 Make grocery list for dinner
5/20 Go to laundry mat to finish laundry
6/20 Buy anything needed for tomorrow's dinner
7/20 Come home and put laundry away
8/20 Do final clean up on house
9/20 Load truck with anything that still needs to go to storage
10/20 Make pumpkin pie
11/20 Make cherry pie
12/20 Assemble dishes that can be made ahead of time
13/20 Brine turkey
14/20 Plan friday's shopping trip
15/20 Pick up husband from work
16/20 Stop at storage, drop off stuff
17/20 Pick up holiday decorations from storage
18/20 Come home, dinner and cleanup
19/20 Do some decorating
20/20 Work on homework

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Holiday around the corner 20

Thanksgiving is sneaking up on me, I am hosting dinner, and I am still backlogged on laundry. The apt. washer and dryer are really small so I can't do much at a time. This means that if I get behind (and running out of quarters does it every time) it takes me a while to catch up. Sigh.

1/20 Laundry 1 in
2/20 Clean LR and DR
3/20 Sweep balcony
4/20 Finalize Tday menu and make grocery list
5/20 Laundry 1 dryer, laundry 2 in
6/20 Walk dog
7/20 Clean and organize bedroom
8/20 Laundry 1 out, laundry 2 dryer, laundry 3 in
9/20 Clean Kitchen
10/20 Load truck with stuff for storage
11/20 Laundry 2 out, laundry 3 dryer, laundry 4 in
12/20 Fold and put away laundry
13/20 Wipe down walls, trim, baseboards, and switches
14/20 Clean ceiling fan
15/20 laundry 3 out, laundry 4 dryer, laundry 5 in
16/20 Clean bathroom
17/20 Critical Thinking homework
18/20 Laundry 4 out, laundry 5 in dryer
19/20 Fold and put away clothes
20/20 Laundry 5 out and put away clothes

Since I need more than 20 today, this doesn't include taking kid to swim, picking up the husband or dropping stuff off at storage. Busy day today :)

Monday, November 22, 2010

Monday 20

Hoping to get some errands done today

1/20 Take kids to school
2/20 Take husband to work
3/20 Do some window shopping (not buying anything until Friday sales but I need to compare a couple of things)
4/20 Go to bank and get some laundry quarters
5/20 Take truck to have exhaust fixed
6/20 Stop for dog food, cat food and contact solution
7/20 Go home, get mail
8/20 Walk dog
9/20 Clean LR and DR
10/20 Start laundry load 1
11/20 Clean Kitchen
12/20 Work on natural science
13/20 Put laundry 1 in dryer
14/20 Load bikes into truck
15/20 Clean bathroom
16/20 Get laundry out of dryer, fold and put away
17/20 Take kid 2 to swim
18/20 Pick up husband
19/20 Take bikes to storage
20/20 Pick up kid, go home and make dinner

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday 20

Normally I skip out on the weekends, but since the husband is at a work function (how come his work functions involve hockey games? Lucky bastard!) I decided to do some organizing.

1/20 Fold and put away leftover clean laundry
2/20 Help girls clean and organize their room
3/20 Vacuum girls room
4/20 Steam clean girls room
5/20 Go to pet store and get dog food and cat food
6/20 Clean LR and DR
7/20 Vacuum LR and DR
8/20 Organize and dust LR and DR
9/20 Clean Kitchen
10/20 Scrub kitchen floors
11/20 Scrub small appliances
12/20 Clean bathroom
13/20 Organize bathroom closet
14/20 Scrub bathroom floors
15/20 Vacuum bedroom
16/20 Clean out bedroom closet
17/20 Dust bedroom
18/20 Work on Biology
19/20 Dinner/after dinner cleanup
20/20 Rearrange LR to get ready for holidays

Friday, November 19, 2010

Stay at home mom, in action

Today's twenty

1/20  Laundry 1 in washer
2/20  Fold and put away clean laundry
3/20 Laundry 1 in dryer, laundry 2 in washer
4/20 Clean living room and dining room
5/20 Plan dinner, get snacks ready for kids
6/20 Walk the dog, get mail
7/20 Laundry 1 out, laundry 2 in dryer, laundry 3 in washer
8/20 Clean bedroom
9/20 Laundry 2 out, laundry 3 in dryer, laundry towels in washer
10/20 Fold and put away laundry 1 and 2
11/20 Clean bathroom
12/20 Laundry 3 out, laundry towels in dryer, laundry girls sheets in washer
13/20 Biology homework
14/20 Laundry towels out, laundry girls sheets in dryer, laundry adult sheets in washer
15/20 Fold and put away laundry 3 and towels
16/20 Critical Thinking homework
17/20 Natural Science homework
18/20 Laundry girls sheets out, laundry adult sheets in dryer
19/20 Make girls beds, make dinner
20/20 Adult sheets out, make adult bed